Sentence examples for a pitiful sight from inspiring English sources

"a pitiful sight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is sad or heartbreaking to look at. Example sentence: "The orphans playing in the mud were a pitiful sight."

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A pitiful sight".

He's a pitiful sight.

The once-mighty Berlin wall is a pitiful sight these days.

Brooks-in-despair is a pitiful sight, and one can't help but sympathize.

A teen-age girl eating ice cream all alone, what a pitiful sight.

He was a pitiful sight, but fortunately for him, he was with a big, tough by protective-looking black man.

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They were a really pitiful sight.

It was a most pitiful sight of human and material destruction".

It was a status symbol in high school, but here, it's just an awkward, somewhat pitiful sight.

Mind you, the pitiful sight of a frat-house initiate effectively "fagging" for Florida's equivalent of Flashman may ring bells to products of our own public-school system.

And then one's eyes alight on the pitiful sight of a mother, sitting in the snow over her dead baby, naked on her lap, with his bloody little socks and pants strewn about her in the snow.Like many of the young Brueghel's paintings, this is a copy of a composition by his father; the earlier one is in the Royal Collection at London's Hampton Court.

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